https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40147
--- Comment #3 from Artem S. Tashkinov t.artem@mailcity.com --- (In reply to Sebastian Lackner from comment #2)
Not major, you can still switch to the ALSA backend when winepulse causes problems for you (with winetricks or by manually creating the necessary registry entries). In this case I suspect its because of the terribly outdated packages of CentOS, but maybe Andrew has a better idea.
I agree with your reasoning but even then I guess a patch for `./configure` is required so that wine's PA plugin was excluded if the system doesn't contain a recent enough version of PA.